Philippe Delerm (born November 27, 1950, in Auvers-sur-Oise, Val-d'Oise, France) is a French writer whose collection of essays La Première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules sold more than one million copies in France.

In 1975, he married Martine Chosson, moved to Beaumont-le-Roger in Eure, and taught French Literature at the Marie Curie Collège (Secondary School) in Bernay.

In 1983, La Cinquième saison aroused interest in the author, and he won the 1990 Prix Alain-Fournier for his novel Autumn.

He achieved his first major success in 1997 with the release of La Première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules, a collection of 35 essays or meditations, each one or two pages in length, describing the joys that can be taken in the "insignificant things" that make up life.

In August 2008, he was invited by France Television to be a commentator for track & field events at the Beijing Olympics.